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2009; Wilson, 1994; Hoven and Eggen, 2006); the literature on IT supporting collective
memory is substantial (e.g. Bachimont and Blanchette, 2006; Engeli, 2006; Kientz and
Abowd, 2006; Livingston, 2006; Rice, Lawyer, and Skousen, 2006; Richter, 2006; Sas et
al., 2006; Sas and Dix, 2006; Walldius, 2006; Whittaker, 2006); and the literature on the
use of technology in public places (Dalsgaard, 2008; Katzeff et al., 2006; Robertson,
Mansfield, and Loke, 2006; Ruffaldi et al., 2008) and interactive environments (e.g.
Crawford, 2005; Gemeinboeck, 2005; Zhao and Moere, 2008) is growing; nevertheless,
the literature for creative, intelligent monuments augmenting memory has not yet
emerged.
In our complex social, technological, and cultural world, embedded with all sorts
of digital technologies that affect us at work, home and social loci, we do not have to
remember all of our daily complex records, but we will depend more and more on the
digital technology to record, analyze, and recall events and memories whenever needed
(Bell, 2009). The e-memory (electronic memory), which is based on using digital
technologies for encoding and retrieving memory, is essential to our current smart
technologies and the developing cloud computing practices, that instead of having
sensors and systems carried with us all the time, cloud computing allows world records to
be updated and stored for users whenever and wherever they go, providing access to
digital memory everywhere (Bell, 2009). Electronic memory is becoming a
contemporary mnemonic device in augmenting the physical human memory. Thus, a
need to define our current memory usage and its representations will affect the future of
research in the use of digital technology on the personal, community, and societal levels
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